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Concrete result of the White House negotiations was almost nil, Premier Laval departing vastly puffed and pleased by a verbal agreement that he should summon the German Ambassador on his return to Paris and start Germany taking the initiative for a final settlement of her troubles by appealing under the Young Plan for a committee to study them, which has now been done...
Facing hunger, seeing hundreds of unemployed waiting around for their jobs, the striking workers modified their demands. U. S. Marshal Jake Fulmer went from Carson City prepared to summon troops if violence threatened...
...limited the committee's powers to compel reluctant witnesses to testify with immunity (TIME, Aug. 17). The whole future course of the investigation depended upon broadening the committee's authority to get information under threat of contempt action. Therefore last week the committee petitioned Governor Roosevelt to summon a special session of the Legislature to pass a bigger & better immunity bill for its use. Within 24 hours the Governor as a matter of "clear duty" issued the call for this week...
...from his air-conditioned office. He exercises in his own gymnasium at home, riding an electric horse, heaving a medicine ball, does not chum with Akron's other leading citizens, Firestones and Seiberlings. He does not invite his Goodyear "cabinet" to exercise with him, but he does summon them to lengthy breakfasts about once each month...
...attention there were the international negotiations incident to Mr. Hoover's proposed debt holiday (see p. 16). Undersecretary Mills was the President's statistical expert in whose head were all the facts and figures needed to deal with France. Two, three, sometimes four times a day President Hoover would summon him for conferences from his great oblong office on the second floor of the Treasury overlooking statues of Alexander Hamilton and William Tecumseh Sherman, with the Potomac beyond. So preoccupied was the Treasury's Undersecretary with the debt negotiations that he cancelled his usual Friday-to-Monday holiday...